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Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American Quotes: Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.
         

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.


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Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.
         



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